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Debian's GNU/kFreeBSD Installer Will Support ZFS

11-30-2010, 09:10 PM

Phoronix: Debian's GNU/kFreeBSD Installer Will Support ZFS

While Debian GNU/kFreeBSD has supported the ZFS file-system with its FreeBSD-8 kernel, support for installing the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD distribution to a root ZFS file-system will now be possible with the Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" release...

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If they succeeed and it becomes a good product, I wonder what they will decide to do with Debian Linux and what will happen to all de derivates of Debian (e.g. Ubuntu). Will they also start using BSD...

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If they succeeed and it becomes a good product, I wonder what they will decide to do with Debian Linux and what will happen to all de derivates of Debian (e.g. Ubuntu). Will they also start using BSD...

for a general use i don't think so. it is difficult to beat the vast amount of hardware drivers that Linux has.

on other hand, i would like to try this out for a home file server. ZFS looks very attractive for this purpose.